LINQ in Action

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Book

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Introducing LINQ

1.1. What is LINQ?

1.1.1. Overview

1.1.2. LINQ as a toolset

1.1.3. LINQ as language extensions

1.2. Why do we need LINQ?

1.2.1. Common problems

1.2.2. Addressing a paradigm mismatch

1.2.3. LINQ to the rescue

1.3. Design goals and origins of LINQ

1.3.1. The goals of the LINQ project

1.3.2. A bit of history

1.4. First steps with LINQ to Objects: Querying collections in memory

1.4.1. What you need to get started

1.4.2. Hello LINQ to Objects

1.5. First steps with LINQ to XML: Querying XML documents

1.5.1. Why we need LINQ to XML

1.5.2. Hello LINQ to XML

1.6. First steps ...